RE: [PATCH] [RFC] emit-crash-char: Allow diversion of printkoutput for crash logging

2008-08-08 Thread Daniel Walker
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 16:24 -0500, Haller, John H (John) wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 16:13 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > > > same sort of things as the point of David's code. early/crash > > > scenarios for people to safely extract portions of the kernel log > > > buffer for transmissio

RE: [PATCH] [RFC] emit-crash-char: Allow diversion of printkoutput for crash logging

2008-08-08 Thread Haller, John H (John)
> On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 16:13 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > same sort of things as the point of David's code. early/crash > > scenarios for people to safely extract portions of the kernel log > > buffer for transmission/storage elsewhere. as was explained in the > > original thread behind t

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] emit-crash-char: Allow diversion of printk output for crash logging

2008-08-08 Thread Daniel Walker
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 16:13 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > same sort of things as the point of David's code. early/crash > scenarios for people to safely extract portions of the kernel log > buffer for transmission/storage elsewhere. as was explained in the > original thread behind the commit.

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] emit-crash-char: Allow diversion of printk output for crash logging

2008-08-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 14:09 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> > I invite you to give some of the "plenty of >> > examples in the tree", you might surprise me.. >> >> look at all the new syscalls added without any userspace code in place >> (still

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] emit-crash-char: Allow diversion of printk output for crash logging

2008-08-08 Thread Daniel Walker
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 14:09 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > you said "usually people submit new interfaces", not "it is usually > not accepted without at least one user". Well, usually people do submit the users, and if they don't it's usually not accepted.. > > I invite you to give some of the "

Re: linux under emulator

2008-08-08 Thread Rob Landley
On Tuesday 05 August 2008 12:30:45 Grant Likely wrote: > On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Mihaela Grigore > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If I intend to run a 2.6 linux kernel under a powerpc emulator, what > > is needed to make a minimal bootable system? I mean, apart from the > > kernel itself

Perl removal patch for 2.6.26.

2008-08-08 Thread Rob Landley
A patch in 2.6.25 added perl as a build requirement for the Linux kernel, by making the file kernel/timeconst.h generated by a perl script. Oddly, the perl script in question tested whether or not you had _enough_ perl installed, and if you didn't have an optional bignum package out of cpan it

Re: initrd and uImage

2008-08-08 Thread Robert Schwebel
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 09:42:41AM -0700, Fundu wrote: > First off i have a ppc based board. > and i'm trying to load a kernel image with ramdisk rootfs. Why? You can also boot your root fs for example directly from a flash partition. > i have build the kernel. it spit uImage,zImage and vmlinux.g

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] emit-crash-char: Allow diversion of printk output for crash logging

2008-08-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 12:05 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Daniel Walker wrote: >> > Another note, usually when submitting new interfaces like this you >> > should also submit the code that uses the interface

Re: embedded rootfs utility

2008-08-08 Thread Behan Webster
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Thanks for this useful tool! > I'm used to plain debootstrap, but decided to give your elbs-rootfs a try for > creating up a mipsel and a powerpc NFS root file system. It worked fine, > except for one minor nit. As an NFS root file system is mounted read-only by > defaul

initrd and uImage

2008-08-08 Thread Fundu
Hi, First off i have a ppc based board. and i'm trying to load a kernel image with ramdisk rootfs. i have build the kernel. it spit uImage,zImage and vmlinux.gz my question are. 1) what are all the different image types ? i know the uImage is just the kernel, what are the rest (zImage & vmlinux.

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] emit-crash-char: Allow diversion of printk output for crash logging

2008-08-08 Thread Daniel Walker
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 12:05 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Daniel Walker wrote: > > Another note, usually when submitting new interfaces like this you > > should also submit the code that uses the interface .. In your case you > > might not be able to do that, but i

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] emit-crash-char: Allow diversion of printk output for crash logging

2008-08-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Daniel Walker wrote: > Another note, usually when submitting new interfaces like this you > should also submit the code that uses the interface .. In your case you > might not be able to do that, but it could never be accepted without at > least one user. i really

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] emit-crash-char: Allow diversion of printk output for crash logging

2008-08-08 Thread Daniel Walker
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 19:20 -0700, David VomLehn wrote: > Allow diversion of characters generated through printk so that they can > be logged separately. The printk_time variables is made externally visible > so that functions processing the diverted characters can parse off the > time added if CON

Re: kernel command line from u-boot

2008-08-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Amol Lad wrote: > > > Probably nobody noticed as this part of the code takes care of the > > > `obsolete-style' parameters. `module_param' is the new way. > > > > Ohh, btw how module_param is different from obsolete style > > para

OLS 2008 videos

2008-08-08 Thread Michael Opdenacker
Greetings, Thomas and I have just released the 30 videos that we shot at OLS this year: http://free-electrons.com/news/news-2008-08-08 Most videos are from kernel and embedded topics, which most of you should be interested in ;-) . Don't hesitate to let other people know... Cheers, Michael and